Word: secrets
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Ultimate Game does, however, provide viewers addicted to the series with some interesting facts not revealed during the show's 13-week stint. Everyone knew that Richard was gay, but so was Sonja, who was the first castaway voted off the island after Richard, originally the target of a secret Tagi alliance among the women, garnered sympathy after coming out. Pre-school teacher Gretchen, with an I.Q. of 142, was so beloved by the organizers that the crew came out of the bushes and hugged her when she was voted off. The organizers did not feel the same way about...
David Mamet's The Water Engine, set against the backdrop of the 1933-1934 Chicago World's Fair, depicts one man's struggle to patent his invention and reveal it to the world. The struggle belongs to Charles Lang, who, along with his secret invention (an engine that runs on water), is exploited by corporate mongers whose smooth promises conceal the destructive forces of a society hungry for cash and willing to do anything to get it. The voice of the chain letter throughout the play keeps the audience guessing as to the implications of people, fate and science...
...Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, occupies a special niche on the campus extracurricular scene. For most of the year, the Lampoon's editors remain within the walls of what they like to believe is an impenetrable mock-Flemish castle. And then, once or twice every semester, they venture forth to distribute an issue of the magazine, or perhaps a Crimson parody. Their work done, they recede silently back into the shrouded depths of the castle...
...Lampoon, of course, encourages such speculation: the editors want very badly for you to wonder what goes on behind their yellow and purple doors. Lampoon editors I have known share three obsessions: Yale secret society Skull and Bones, Harvard's own tight-lipped Porcellian Club, and notoriously secretive author Thomas Pynchon. (The organization claims that Tyrone Slothrop, a fictional Harvard graduate in Pynchon's Gravity Rainbow, was a Lampoon editor.) The Lampoon really, really wants secrecy to be the organization's hallmark. Only invited seniors, enterprising Crimson editors and the select few undergraduates who pass the Lampoon's rigorous comp...
...until a clear "winner" remains. Ash is a 10-year-old trainer, though for the stage show he and his friends were played by twenty-somethings. (This becomes disconcerting when his mother, looking the same age as him, laments his turning into a man; and Misty, who harbors a secret love for Ash, has moved well beyond training bras...